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Everyone who cares one iota about the direction of college athletics should doff their caps to Notre Dame football Coach Lou Holtz...
...night before his top-ranked Fighting Irish were going to play the second-ranked University of Southern California, Holtz told his squad that he was going to suspend two of its best skill-players, tailback Tony Brooks and flanker Ricky Watters...
...been 20 minutes late for a team meeting Friday night, so Holtz announced at a meeting later that night that he was going to send them back home to South Bend...
Recruiting is another Holtz specialty. He signed up twelve of the top 100 high school All-Americas for this year. "The last couple of years, I've recruited for speed," says Holtz. "We've sometimes been a step or two slow. But now we have people like Ismail, who can do 40 ((yds.)) in 4.28 seconds." The Wilkes-Barre, Pa., freshman is possibly the fastest receiver in the country...
...weakened but still formidable Penn State and, in their final game, with No. 2-ranked U.S.C. If successful, the Irish will probably play currently unbeaten West Virginia in either the Fiesta Bowl or the Gator Bowl, a contest that could decide the national championship. But overconfidence is not in Holtz's playbook. Says he: "Right now -- I don't care what the polls say -- we're not the best in the country. But maybe we can be by the end of the season...